Fredrickson v. Proviso Township

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ELAINE E. BUCKLO, District Judge.

Charles Fredrickson has sued Proviso Township, and, each in his or her individual capacity, five individual Township board members and Ronald Serpico, who is the mayor of Melrose Park. Plaintiff asserts violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Illinois common law of conspiracy. In count I, plaintiff alleges that all defendants except Serpico violated his First Amendment right to freedom of speech. In count II, he alleges that all defendants, including *804Serpico, conspired to deprive him of that constitutional right. Before me is…